Researchers discover how the brain sorts out relevant and irrelevant sensory information during decision making processes.
Researchers find even high performing schools don't influence students' abstract reasoning.
A new study reports adults who survived posterior fossa brain tumors as children have lower working memory performance than healthy adults.
Researchers report people who learned to play music as children process speech faster later in life.
According to a new study, middle aged men who consume more than 36 grams of alcohol per day could speed their memory loss by up to six years later in life.
According to a new study, early life exposure to lead can increase risk of insomnia, excessive daytime sleepiness and other sleep problems in later childhood.
Researchers show the individual differences in how we process numbers have a structural basis in the brain.
Researchers explore synaptic mechanisms of rhythmic brain waves thanks to custom designed tools.
Teens who take a daytime nap have better attention, nonverbal reasoning and spatial memory skills than their peers who do not nap, researchers report.
Researchers are attempting to teach two-legged robots a stable, and robust human way of walking.
All mothers are aware that breastfeeding provides certain advantages over bottle feeding for babies. A new study reveals children who were breastfed as infants, even for a short period of time, performed better at cognitive tests at age ten than their bottle-fed peers.
A new study on the International Space Station is being conducted to help researchers understand how the brain changes in space and develop ways to deal with those changes.
